Improvement in brick-kilns



v To all whom it may concern: Y 4

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGQ SAMUEL O. BREWER, OF WATER VALLEY, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENIT IN BRlClS-KILNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,016, dated June 20, 1871.

Be it known thatI, SAMUEL C. BREWER,

of Water Valley, in the county of La Fayette and State of Mississippi, have invented ajnew,

and Improved Brick-Kiln and I do hereby'declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin g formin g part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a plan or topview of my improved brick-kiln. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same taken on the plane of the line a b, Fig. 1. 7

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

My invention consists in improving the con struction of brick-kilns, as hereinafter fully described and subsequently pointed out in the claim. The overburningof some and insufficient burning of other bricks can thereby be prevented, as Well as the unnecessary waste of fuel.

My invention consists in the applica-V manner, with furnaces, eyes, and crevices for the proper distribution of heat, is placed a course,A, of bricks in such manner as to leave horizontal, longitudinal, and transverseflu'es c 0 and d d, which intersect each other, as indicated in Fig. l. quite close to the verge of the kiln. All the flues are in proper connection with the smoke crevices, so 'that all the products of combus- The outermost fiues are rich enter the'saine. Upon the course A is laid another course B, of bricks, which are set on edge and close together, so as to cover the tines c d- The brick of the top course B are preferably fire-brick, so as not to be injured by rain-Water. Cement may be used to securely close the joints in the top course B and prevent the escape of heat through crevices.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Pat- The arrangement, upon the top of the'kiln, of the course A of bricks, forming a series of intersecting and horizontal flues, 0 d, and thereabove the edge-laid course B of fire-brick, with registers O therein, all as and for the purpose specified. r

SAML. O. BREWER. Witnesses: f a

W. A. HERRING, J. N. GoUT. 

